Shadow Slave

Usually, it would have taken Kai a lot longer to fly across the city to reach the tranquil terrace district… not that he would have. But today, the famous idol neglected his habit of staying low and out of sight. It seemed that his speed increased tremendously, as well, because ten minutes later, he was already at Sunny's door.

Maybe because of that, there was no crowd of paparazzi following him.

As they waited for Cassie, Effie rummaged through the empty refrigerator, then walked away from it with a disappointed sigh.

"There's no food!"

Sunny, who was evaluating the damage the boisterous huntress had done to the guest bedroom, glanced at her darkly.

"We've been gone for months. What did you expect?"

Effie made a sad face, then shrugged.

"But I'm hungry!"

Sunny let out an exasperated breath.

"...I have some synthpaste, if you want."

She shuddered and opened her mouth to retort, but at that moment, there was a knock on the door. If not for the haughty shadow standing guard outside — reluctantly, of course, since mundane tasks such as this were grossly beneath it — Sunny would have tensed up.

However, he already knew that it was Cassie.

The blind girl walked inside, froze for a moment, then raised a deliciously smelling package.

"...I brought food."

quick glance at Kai

has some

did not stare at the archer for

Master, his looks assumed an almost hypnotizing quality. It

bit, Sunny couldn't help but shake his head ruefully, a stunned expression on his face. He finally understood why Master Jet had called herself average when they first

no one he

And Sunny himself?

predicted, but even he couldn't call himself unassuming anymore. The scrawny kid from the outskirts was

in their darkness, visible only to Sunny himself, golden threads of

settled around the

Nightmare, none of the four seemed too joyous… well, except for Effie, who

other free, however, just felt…

to carry on no matter how deep the wounds dealt to their souls cut. Now that the danger had passed and the members of the cohort were back in the real world, all those invisible scars were starting to make their presence

on the Ivory City…

share of demons to quell, no

Kai poured himself a cup of tea, looked at Sunny, and asked

happened? I don't remember

dropped her fork and stared at the archer with

You were swallowed

Kai smiled with embarrassment:

just, sort of… jumped into his mouth. Because I didn't know how

few times, but didn't say anything. She even forgot about her food

looked down, then

fifth challenger for a while. He fell for my deception because he had assumed that I would not trust anyone with the knives, I think. After you killed the dragon,

quiet for a few moments, and then